On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:53:43PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > > Should I be worried that my apache server is running under root. running apache as root is a very bad idea, but you would have had to do this yourself it is never done like by any default i am aware of. run ps aux | grep apache to see what user its running as. it is normal for one of the apache (out of about 10 or more) to be running as root, this is OK as it does not answer queries, it only forks children to handle the requests. > When I do a ls -ld /var/www I get > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 30 20:06 /var/www > And if so how can I can it??? you don't need to change it, those permissions are fine, files do not need to be owned or group owned by www-data if they are world writable. the only reason to make files readable by www-data specifically is if you have htaccess protected documents you don't want shell users to be able to see without the password. otherwise world readable files will do just fine. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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